Burning Chrome

Laughter, sizzling, the clinking of wine glasses and the crunching of chips float down the hallway. The smell of good food made with cumin and love. The kitchen is a place of joy and family, a place of sharing our days and silently scarfing Mom’s chicken tacos. Many of the greatest moments in my life have been in my kitchen: cooking pork ribs with my dad and listening to his ridiculous old rock music, opening my first college acceptance letter, learning we were moving to Munich. Many of the worst

Nevada desert called Burning Man. This festival promotes a society in which there are no strict roles; what people bring to the week-long event is what they can give in exchange for other items they may need. This festival provides a platform in which creativity along with expression are the forefront to its’ existence. Plato’s Republic defines justice as a tension between justice and equality, furthermore where each part of the whole does the job which is appropriate to it. Burning Man defines freedom

William Faulkner is famous for his works such as The Fable, The Sound and The Fury and As I Lay Dying. In 1939, he published a short story about a poor white Southerner and named it Barn Burning. The story centers about the life of people around barn area with Colonel Sartoris Snopes, a white child living in a poor situation with his mother, sisters, brother, and father—goes by the name of Abner Snopes—as its main character. There are many Southern issues that we could get from this story. However

It’s more than difficult living in a drug-plagued, impoverished community. These places are often ignored, but just as important as anywhere else. The film Moonlight, directed by Barry Jenkins, is meant to demonstrate the hardships of living in a difficult community. Thematically, it highlights the already difficult nature of being black in modern America, while simultaneously showing the hardship of also being gay in said tough community. The film is comprised into three acts surrounding the development

In the story We have always lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson, the reader is presented with only one perspective and that is Mary Katherine "Merricat" Blackwood's point of view. While many aspect were present, the one that really stood out was that the Blackwood family does not appreciate change. Everything is preserved: objects, food, routines, rooms, etc. So, it is clear that when facing situations that cause change, both Mary Katherine and Constance Blackwood, the two sisters who survived

The Symbols of an Hour Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” is a deeply immersive and intriguing story about a woman who rejoices at the freedom that her husband’s apparent death leaves her. The story is highly effective in surprising the reader, as well as succinctly impressing upon the reader its themes and symbols. Chopin’s message to the reader is exceptionally clear: Louise Mallard, along with countless other married women in the 19th century, is restrained in her marriage. Chopin conveys this

Alan Dugan’s Poem “Love Song: I and Thou” is about between a man and himself. The poem is about a person studying himself and addressing himself. Although he thinks he is to blame for all his failures, deep inside he blames his ignorance in his youth, and God had a hand in destroying him too, however he in the end he realizes that he cannot handle life and its obstacles alone and asks his wife for help. The poem begins to address the state of an imperfectly built house to explain the difficulties

Tate Langdon, is the main villain of the American’s Horror Story Franchise who has had a long history of abuse and psychotic episodes throughout his season. Tate Langdon started off as an innocent child, but in the end turned into a serial killer. The road to his first killings can be easily traced, and it all starts with the murder house itself. While the show depicts the house Tate grew up in as a supernatural hot spot for evil, when looking at his life from a realistic vantage point there is a

Gun shots in the distance, dogs barking from of police sirens, the sound of footsteps asphalt. Hiding under my sleeping bag breathing hard I think to myself, “how the heck did we move from a safe neighborhood to this shit town?” Rolling myself over on my hands and knees off my makeshift bed I carefully listen to my surroundings -- nothing. A sigh of relief comes out of me as I force my eyes to adjust to the darkness in my room focusing on my bedroom window trying to remember if I locked it. My first

1. Montag loves his job. As the first paragraph states “It was a pleasure to burn”. Montag loved to see things “eaten”, “blackened”, and “changed”. He saw himself as the “conductor” with a “brass nozzle”. 2. Clarisse is different. She’s different from everyone else in the town that’s around her. She doesn’t just believe what society has told her. “Strange. I heard once that a long time ago houses used to burn on accident and they needed firemen to stop the flames. “Clarisse is always wondering and